גָּעַר
gâʻar · gaw-ar'
to chide
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to chide
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: corrupt, rebuke, reprove.
Letters
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to carry, to lift up › to see and know › the head, the highest
To carry, to lift up that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of גָּעַר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
14 occurrences · 14 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- rebuke3 · 21%
- thou hast rebuked2 · 14%
- rebuked1 · 7%
- them, and rebuke1 · 7%
- he rebuked1 · 7%
- but god shall rebuke1 · 7%
- with thee, nor rebuke1 · 7%
- now therefore why hast thou not reproved1 · 7%
- he rebuketh1 · 7%
- behold, i will corrupt1 · 7%
- and i will rebuke1 · 7%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.